Security Notice-Statement about impact of the Android System USSD Vulnerability on Huawei Mobile Phones and Tablets
- Initial Release Date: 2012-12-21
- Last Release Date: 2012-12-21
In September 2012, OSVDB released the security vulnerability discovered on Android system. This vulnerability can be triggered when the specific Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is executed through the web site, which may directly cause the Android devices to be restored to the factory settings. Huawei PSIRT and the terminal team have deeply analyzed and evaluated this vulnerability in the first time.
Although Huawei mobile phones and tablets support the extension functions of USSD commands, the execution of the specific USSD commands cannot cause them to be restored to the factory settings. So users can rest assured to use Huawei mobile phones and tablets.
2012-12-21 V1.0 INITIAL
Huawei adheres to protecting the ultimate interests of users with best efforts and the principle of responsible disclosure and deal with product security issues through our response mechanism. Please report to Huawei PSIRT at psirt@huawei.com if you find any security vulnerability of Huawei products.
For the vulnerability information released by OSVDB, please refer to: http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/85806
